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The Best Thing In The World | Poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The Best Thing In The World Poem 

................... by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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What's the best thing in the world?
June-rose, by May-dew impearled;
Sweet south-wind, that means no rain;
Truth, not cruel to a friend;
Pleasure, not in haste to end;
Beauty, not self-decked and curled
Till its pride is over-plain;
Light, that never makes you wink;
Memory, that gives no pain;
Love, when, so, you're loved again.

What's the best thing in the world?
?Something out of it, I think.


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